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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed May l5, 1920 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June l2, T923.

lslttl Ulhlllll@ STATES PATENT @FFlCEO THOMAS H.

KANE, OF YOUNGS'IOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY,

OE' YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F MICHIGAN.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

Application tiled May 15,

T 0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known thatl, THoMAs H. KANE, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and. State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Building Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a knock-down metal building construction of the 'type shown in my prior patent, dated December 12, 1916, No. 1,208,568 and the object of the present invention is to secure main supporting members or columns which will grip the edges of the sheet metal panels in such a manner as to insure a rigid and permanently reliable connection between them thus not only providing a more solid structure but also admitting of the use of thinner sheet metal for the panels.

This invention consists in a combination of metal columns and panels adapted for the construction of knock down buildings in which the columns are Amade of a plurality of parts, which, when secured together, will grip the edges of the sheet metal panels between them, thus avoiding all necessity of depending upon limited areas of the sheet metal panels to take the stresses to which the structures may be subjected by winds and loads.

This invention is also embodied in columns for knock down buildings formed of three parts of which the middle part is substantially a Hanged bar such as a T-bar or I-beam, while the other two members are angle bars, the several members being connected together by means of slotted bolts and wedges, and when so connected, grip between them the edges of the adjacent sheet metal panels.

The invention further consists in the details of construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims.

lin the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the upper end of a column when taken a art to admit the edges of the adjacent pane s. lFig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of a column showing the connecting bolt and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of this column. Fig. l isan elevation of a portion of a modified form of column and Fig. 5 is a transverse section thereof.

Similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

,la the structure shown in my prior pat- 1920. serial no. 381,544..

ings are built eighty feet wide and more t-han three hundred feet long, the stresses on the sheet metal of 'the panels, because of winds and roof loads, at the limited areas engaged by the bolts and wedges, become quite heavy. The present invention is designed to take these stresses from these limited areas and spread them along the entire edges of the sheet metal panels so that sheet metal of less thickness will be required to withstand the stresses.

As this is the sole invention presented by this application, l have omitted all showing of roof trusses and the manner of connecting them to the columns, and all showings of base plates, these being matters which can be easily designed by skilled engineers after considering the descriptions and drawings of these details set forth in my prior patent aforesaid.

Referring now to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the column is shown made up of a central 'T- ba-r having a head 1, a web 2 and a foot 3. Two angle bars, each having a wide flange l and a narrow flange 5 may be united to the central member by slotted bolts having heads t and slotted Shanks 7 which are adapted to pass through proper holes 8 and 9 in the flanges t and webs 2. A wedge 10 for each bolt is adapted to draw the parts together.

llt will be noted that the outer edge 12 ofthe ange 4i of each angle bar is bent. As a. result, when them-turned edges 13 of the sheet metal panels 14 are inserted between the angle bars and the central T har, as indicated in Fig. 3, and the wedges l0 are driven in, the intermediate portions of the flanges t of the angle bars will be drawn toward each other, which tends to flatten them. s these outer edges engage with the foot 3 of the T har, the edect is that the danges 5 are pressed with great 4force against the portions 13 and llt of the sheet metal panels. As the engagement between these parte of the columns and the edges of the panels is for the entire heightof these members, the union is much stronger than can be possible with any number of lil@ lll@

the same flanges 4 and 5, and the inturned edges 13 of the panel 14 are gripped between these angle bars and the web 15 of the I- beam while the main portions 14 of the panels are pressed against the flanges 1G. The opposite flanges 17 are engagediloy the inturned edges 12 of the angle bars.

The details and"proportions of this lock between a sheet metal panel and a column made up of a plurality of parts may all be changed by those skilled inthe art without departing from the spirit of my invention as set vforth in the following claims. It will be understood that when only one panel is to be connected to the column, one of the angle bars may be omitted.

I claim 1. A metal building construction comprising a column and two alined sheet-metal panels, the vertical edges of the panels being bent inwardly to constitute parallel flan es, the column consisting of a central T liar against whose web and flanges the flanges and main portions of the panels are fitted, said column ofurther consisting of a air of' angle bars and bolts to press the e ges of the panel against the webs of said T bar.

2. A metal building construction compris-` ing a column and two alined sheet metal panels, the vertical edges of the panels being bent inwardly ,to yconstitute parallel flan es,

the column consisting' of a central T ar against whose l.web and flanges the flanges and mainyportions of the panels are fitted,

said column further consisting of a pair of angle bars and means tol press the edges of the panel against said T bar, said T bar being provided with flanges at the edge of its web to furnish footing for said angle bars.

3. A metal building construction compris-` ing in combination a column consisting of a main member embodyinga web and a flange at right angles thereto, and a second member consisting of a web and a flange at right angles to each other, a sheet metal panel having its edge bent at right angles so as to fit between the two column members, slotted bolts extending through alined holes in the column members, and wedges extending through the slots in the' bolts and adapted to force them together.

5. A metal construction comprising a column and two alined sheet metal panels having inturned upright edges at right angles to the plane of the panels, said column con-4 sisting of a central T bar against whose web and flanges the flanges and main portion of the panels are fitted, and of two angle bars of unequal flanges and means to press the wide flanges of the angle bars toward lthe web of the T bar, the outer edges of the wide flanges being bent toward -each other, said T bar being provided with flanges at the adjacent edge of its web to furnish footing for said bent edges of the angle bars.

THOMAS H. KANE. 

